God ( Read more... )

The divine face is beyond reach. “Please,” I beg, “tell me how to find you! We’ve lost our way ( Read more... )

He gets this way sometimes. When he’s been drinking ( Read more... )

The town itself was much like any other on this side of the marshy plains - delightfully humid, marvelously rancid - but it differed from the last few burgs we scuttled through in at least one way: the grizzled old bug in the middle of the town square, planted atop a chunk of rock, shouting almost incoherently at anyone who would let their antennae ( Read more... )

Looking up at the face of my Lord, His face covered in blood, I whispered my vow: “On my life, I will see Rome burn if I have to strike the candle myself ( Read more... )

The noise outside was deafening. The Devil sighed and turned up the volume on his iPod.

Suddenly, the door of his “retirement office” burst open. It was one of his former Dukes.

“Haven’t you heard?” the demon-lord practically shouted, twitching with excitement. “The Guf finally defaulted. The Gates have been opened for reverse-colonization by ( Read more... )

I awaken in total darkness, as I somehow knew I would. My mind feels de-sequenced and random-access. MD would call it integration shakedown but oldskool knows it as life-shock. Or maybe my eyes are just closed? I touch my actual finger against my actual eyeball: Ugh, ow, no, they're open. It really is totally dark ( Read more... )

Climate change begins to reduce the habitable surface of the Earth and everyone is trying to insure their survival elsewhere ( Read more... )

I don't know who made the breakthrough on strong artificial intelligence ( Read more... )

The adamantine blade flares red off concrete. Brimstone afterscent. Infernal ( Read more... )